Measuring 10 feet (3 meters) long and weighing in at more than 400 pounds (180 kilograms), it's hard to imagine that the arapaima, the largest fish in the Amazon River basin, could ever go missing.

A villager from the Rumao Island community holds a young arapaima before releasing it back to the wild.Reuters Villagers from the Rumao Island community paddle their canoes loaded with ...

Everyone knows the tiger, the panda, the blue whale, but what about the other five to thirty million species estimated to inhabit our Earth? Many of these marvelous, stunning, and rare species have ...

(UPI) -- The natural body armor of the South American arapaima fish is so tough that it can withstand the piercingly fierce bite of a piranha without a problem. With its streamlined body and flat head ...

High market demand led to declining numbers and a ban on arapaima fishing in the late 1990s, though illegal poaching for the black market continued. According to a recent paper, the co-management ...

An ancient Amazonian fish with thick piranha-proof scales may hold the secret to building better bullet-proof body armor, puncture resistant gloves or even safety goggles and CD cases. Researchers at ...

Here's a question - if piranhas are so ferocious and will attack anything, why aren't they the only fish in the Amazon? Well, in some cases, it's because other fish possess bite-proof armor. The ...

The Giant Arapaima fish, a large, commercially-important species in the Amazon Basin, is now locally extinct in many regions around the area, according to biologists. Bioeconomic theory is often used ...

Measuring 10 feet (3 meters) long and weighing in at more than 400 pounds (180 kilograms), it's hard to imagine that the arapaima, the largest fish in the Amazon River basin, could ever go missing.